all things are difficult before they are easy．
萬事開頭難。
business before pleasure.
先苦後甜／先辦正事。
never put off till tomorrow what may be done today．
今日事，今日畢。
hope is life and life is hope．
希望才有人生，人生要有希望。
where there is life,there is hope.
生命不息，希望長在。
man's dearest possession is life, and it is given to him to live but once. he must live so as to feel no torturing regrets for years without purpose, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past---ostorovsky
人最寶貴的東西是生命。生命屬於我們只有一次。一個人的生命應該這樣度過：當他回首往事時，他不因虛度年華而悔恨，也不因過去碌碌無為而羞恥
the sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. —— thomas hardy
一個希望的突然失落會留下一處傷痕，即使那希望最終會實現，也決不能完全平復。—— 托馬斯·哈代
the more mistakes you make, the more progress you will make.
你犯的錯誤越多，你的進步就越快。
self-trust is the essence of heroism.
自信為英雄品質之本。
a man may learn wit every day.
學無止境．
a strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- thomas addison
強者能同命運的風暴抗爭。 -- 愛迪生
a man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- j. burroughs
一個人可以失敗很多次，但是只要他沒有開始責怪旁人，他還不是一個失敗者。 -- 巴勒斯
energy and persistence conquer all things. -- benjamin franklin
能量加毅力可以征服一切。 -- 富蘭克林
ideas are like rabbits. you get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.--john steinbeck
主意就象野兔，你若有一對，學會怎樣馴養它們，你很快就會有一打。--約翰·斯坦貝克
the good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. --bertrand russell
美好的生活是一種由愛所激勵和由知識所指導的生活。--羅素
if you can make it here,you make it anywhere.
如果你能在這兒做到了,你能在任何地方做到.
man's greatness lies in his power of thought.—— blaise pascal
人的偉大之處在於他的思想的力量。—— b· 帕斯卡
it is strange that all great men should have some little grain of madness mingled with whatever genius they possess.-- moliere
很奇怪，大凡為人在他們所擁有的天分中都混雜著一些瘋狂的成分。 -- 莫里哀
towering genius disdains a beaten path. he seeks regions hitherto unexplored.--abraham lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過的路。他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。--林肯
all great truths are obvious truths. but no all obvcious truths are great truths. —— a. huxley
偉大的真理都是明擺著的事實，但並不是所有顯而易見的事實都是偉大的真理。——a·赫胥黎
education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. --robert frost
教育就是要使人具備一種能力， 可以聽到任何話都不動怒或喪失自信。--羅伯特·弗羅斯特
love is an active power in man, a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him ovrecome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits to be himself, to retain his integrity. --erich fromn
愛是活躍於人心中的一種力量，它衝破人與人之間的隔閡，使我們緊緊相連； 它使我們戰勝孤獨無助，卻仍使我們保持自我個性的獨立完整。--埃立克·弗洛姆